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So the Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; that is the way they encamped under their standards, and that is the way they set out, each with his clan and family.

Nadab and Abihu, however, fell dead before the LORD when they made an offering with unauthorized fire before him in the Desert of Sinai. They had no sons; so only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

So Moses counted them, as he was commanded by the word of the LORD .

So Moses counted all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the LORD commanded him.

So Moses collected the redemption money from those who exceeded the number redeemed by the Levites.

So that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go into the sanctuary and assign to each man his work and what he is to carry.

So Moses, Aaron and the leaders of Israel counted all the Levites by their clans and families.

Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them."

"Say to the Israelites: 'When a man or woman wrongs another in any way and so is unfaithful to the LORD , that person is guilty

May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells and your thigh wastes away. " " 'Then the woman is to say, "Amen. So be it."

"So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them."

So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.

Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

To purify them, do this: Sprinkle the water of cleansing on them; then have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the Israelites, so that they may be ready to do the work of the LORD .

Of all the Israelites, I have given the Levites as gifts to Aaron and his sons to do the work at the Tent of Meeting on behalf of the Israelites and to make atonement for them so that no plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary."

So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,

and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.

But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day

" 'An alien living among you who wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover must do so in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same regulations for the alien and the native-born.' "